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Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing Conference 2006
What: 2006 Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing Conference - www.gracehopper.org
Theme: Making Waves
Making waves is to move the world! And women in computing are Making Waves; from space travel to advances in robotic technology, to leading scientific breakthroughs in cancer research and cloning.
When: October 4-7, 2006
Where: San Diego, California, Town and Country Resort & Convention Center, 500 Hotel Circle North San Diego, CA 92108. www.gracehopper.org
Why: The leading conference for women in the field of computer science, the Grace Hopper Celebration provides a forum to inspire, educate, encourage and create awareness of opportunities for women in the field of computing and to celebrate the considerable achievement of women in the field. This year’s theme, Making Waves, emphasizes the expanding circles of influence and impact women have on the computing and technology fields.
Who & What: The largest gathering of Women in Computing in the World includes leading women from industry and government, professors and researchers, graduate and undergraduate students. Plenary sessions, technical papers, panels, poster sessions and workshops by successful researchers and professionals in the area of computer science. Anticipated attendance: 1200+
Keynotes:
- Shirley M. Tilghman - President, Princeton University
- Sally K. Ride - Former NASA Astronaut, President and CEO Sally Ride Science, Professor of Physics at UCSD
- Helen Greiner - Co-founder and chairman of the board, iRobot Corporation
2006 Invited Speakers:
- Marissa Mayer - Director, Consumer Web Products, Google
- Radia Perlman - Senior Distinguished Engineer, Sun
- Deborah Johnson - Olsson Professor of Applied Ethics & Department Chair Department of Science, Technology and Society (formerly TCC), University of Virginia
- Justine Cassell - Associate Professor of Media Arts & Sciences, Northwestern University
- Trish Millines Dziko - Director, Technology Access Foundation
- Yuanyuan Zhou - Assistant professor, Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Conference Leadership:
- General Chair - Jan Cuny, PhD, National Science Foundation
- Program Chair - Lucy Sanders, National Center for Women & Information Technology
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2006 Sponsors, Scholarship Underwriters, & Affiliates
Pre-conference events:
Feedback And Dynamics In Nature Workshop: Explores quantitative methods for investigating the role of feedback and dynamics in a variety of biological, ecological, geological, and physical systems. Sponsored By: California Institute of Technology - Princeton University - University of California, Santa Barbara
TechLeaders: Promotes and enhances leadership skills for technical women at all levels. Brings together powerful women exercising major influence on technology from industry, government and academia. Provides a venue where women leaders meet to share ideas, tactics, and strategies and expand and deepen relationships with peers in the technical community.
Additional Events:
Awards Banquet: Announces the award recipients of the prestigious Anita Borg Award for Technical Leadership & Anita Borg Social Impact Award, along with awards and honors in other areas; Thursday evening, October 5th at the Grace Hopper Celebration.
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History: Co-founded in 1994 by Dr. Anita Borg (1949-2003) and Dr. Telle Whitney and named to honor the legacy of US Navy Admiral, Grace Murray Hopper. Admiral Hopper’s work on compilers and on making machines understand ordinary language instructions led ultimately to the development of the business language COBOL.
There have been five Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing Conferences, 1994 in Washington D.C., 1997 in San Jose, California, 2000 in Cape Cod, Massachusetts, 2002 in Vancouver, British Columbia, and 2004 Chicago, Illinois.
The Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing is presented by:
The Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology (www.anitaborg.org) and the Association of Computing Machinery - ACM (www.acm.org)
Contact: For more information please see www.gracehopper.org or contact media@gracehopper.org or phone 650-236-4079
